Many Jews in Spain and Portugal assimilated into the population following the Inquisition and expulsion. I have seen estimates that one-fourth of the Spanish population has Jewish ancestry.

If you can't find an address/street combination in a census, always remember to check for street name changes/renumbering. Osborne Ave in Brooklyn became Ocean Ave (see:

Thank you, Tony. The records that were recently added to JewishGen’s Holocaust Database, as reported earlier by Nolan Altman, concern Revoked Citizenship and Property Seizures 1933-1945. To learn

We often had fish, i.e., milchig, on Friday nights because there was always fresh fish from the fish monger who came around the neighborhood to provide our many Catholic neighbors with fresh fish on

your arguments are wonderful, but like the little old lady said in the fast food ad, "show me the beef". please provide us with just one single properly documented case, out of all the millions of

Iryna, Sorry but the I've never seen the name Goichberg in my research. It doesn't seem to be related to Chamudis, or any of its variations.

I grew up in a small town in south Texas (and still live in that area but in San Antonio) which was and is heavily Catholic and school lunches on Friday were never meat. Herschel Sheiness

I have heard that in France they have milchog on Shabbos since Catholics have no meat on Fridays and they didn’t want to offend them/stand out. roberta

I'm not certain that the man on the 1869 census in Tokaj (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK8-839K-X?i=429&cat=385993) and the man who died in Nagyvárad are the same person: the

With a nod to my friend of our youth, as far as I know the Dutch custom was, and often still is, to eat Milky at the Shabbos morning meal, but Friday night was meaty

Thanks for the reply. When will they be available to view. Now, when the conference starts, or a different timeframe. And how to acces. Will there be a link on that page.

Yefim, I have not checked the Romania (Bessarabia) database but I will. I only have a couple of first names but I'll include them later. I'll be very happy to help anyone if I can. Thank you. Pablo

Hi JewishGenners, I am trying to track down every bit of information about: Friedrich, Frigyes (Fritz) Neuberger de Hlinik . Friedrich was born in Pelsoz (then in the Austro- Hungarian Empire) in

I have very good news Stanley - there are a number of records from Belaya Tserkov which have been recently processed and are in the queue for uploading to the database including 1875 revision list and

Hoping someone with experience finding elusive Jewish ancestors based on DNA matches can help... My dad didn't know he had Jewish ancestry until taking a MyHeritage DNA test and receiving his report

If the family of a deceased (nonobservant) Jewish man doesn't know the name of his parents, how would his name be shown on his headstone? Would "ben Avraham" be used to signify that he was Jewish,

Well, good question. The general answer is that you are writing a Jewish Russian family name in English using common English characters. The original name sounded something like that with k's and ch

Meyer LEVIN left Danzig before the rest of the family adopted the name of PERLBACH. He went to London. I am trying to find the link with Jacob LEVIN (resided in London, later on in Cape Town as a Cape

There was a question about Ovsey name. "Ovsey" is a common Russian variant for Yehoshua

Hi Sherri Thank you for replying, Grandpa Gerson was born in Nov.10, 1885. He came to NYC and according to records was picked up by his brother Samuel, they both were Bakers. In 1923 His wife Dora,